Cuy and a Convent

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Arrived in Arequipa
We arrived in the lovely White City of Arequipa, Ricardo´s home town. We checked into a great hotel and had a buffet breakfast where Rach got excited because they had a cereal that tasted like Sugar Puffs and cold leche! Ricardo gave us a quick tour of the city and then Margarita joined us to visit Santa Catalina. This convent is like a mini city in itself and previously housed 2000 nuns. We spent the afternoon wandering around the cloisters, chapels and rooms, which seemed relatively well furnished for nuns back in those days. It was really too big to appreciate as we were all feeling rather tired from the last two days and we we were wandering around at altitude again. Little did Rachel realise, the reason she was feeling so weak was the beginning of a nasty flu bug.

Cuy Cuisine
Hands up who thinks guinea pigs are cute? Hands up who thinks they´d make a tasty meal? Well, Jase and the Peruvians seem to think so! Jase was determined to eat the Peruvian delicacy cuy on our tour, probably just to annoy Rach, Elisabeth, Debra and other lovers of the cute little critters. Ricardo took us to a traditional restaurant where Jase ordered his dish and Margarita was adventurous and went for an alpaca steak. Rach could hardly eat her stuffed pepper, Jase´s guinea pig friend looked so foul. It looked like it had just been chucked in the deep fat fryer and lay prone on the plate, its two front teeth sticking out. Jase gulped a bit when it arrived but got stuck in and declared it tasted rather fishy! He said he wouldn´t eat it again. But at least it´s carcass provided a bit of humour for Rach and Ricardo!

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Comments

[Jones]

Gruesome Guinea
I can't tell you how repulsed I am by the gory Guinea pic, it's like something from Predator and it has a little face and little paws AND YOU ATE IT? WITH CHIPS AND CARROTS? Gross, man! That's just wrong. I will eat your dog to prove the point...

[jones]

Milligan strikes again
it is not me it is the spirit of milligan. His birthday is the day before mine, we are connected through atrology, or daftology. some sort of ology! I would not eat your dog. I would get Keith to do it.

[Jo]

reminder
must not let Rupert on the computer must not let Rupert on the computer must not let Rupert on the computer . . .